Blot #1, ca. 1984

A single-edition satire publication published in 1984. Blot #1 satirizes the turgidity of academic mathematic and philosophical journals. Blot #1 describes itself as an "independent forum for material which shows the free play of ideas in all areas...[of] literature, artwork, sciences, music, anthropology." Beginning with a "Title Apropos Subject at Hand," the publication favors a letter-to-the-editor style and includes essays interspersed with mathematical equations, absurdist cartoons, quasi-scientific models, how-to lists (ex.: "Four Keys to Enhanced-Effectiveness Trench Warfare"), handwritten sociological observations, visual art, poetry (attributed to children or in the style of creative journals), play scripts, and philosophical lectures. Blot is published as a loose stack of pages, collected within a hand-folded paper packet labeled "Blot Bloody Blot."